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Survivors, whose ships were turned away from British Mandate Palestine, share their memories of a largely unknown, yet powerful and painful, story. ....
SA Jewish community lights candles in memory of Holocaust victims 2h ago Share South Africa’s Jewish community joined the rest of the world yesterday in remembering the 6 million European Jews who were killed during the Holocaust. Held virtually by the South African Board of Deputies because of the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Day) commemorations dispensed with a single keynote speaker in favour of testimonies from six survivors who each lit a candle of remembrance at the end. “The duty of all us survivors,” said Marian Turski, the international vice-chairman of the Auschwitz Committee, “is to warn the next generation to prevent a repetition of Nazism, racism and fascism.” ....
6 Holocaust survivors to give their testimonies at annual Yom HaShoah ceremony Share “If we forget, the dead will die a second time,” said Nobel prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel. As the world prepares to remember the Holocaust on Friday, it is a very real issue in South Africa where the community of those who survived the Nazi German genocide of 6 million Jews is dwindling. The handful of survivors who remain from the death camps are old. They were children when they were interned with their parents, grandparents and siblings – most of whom never made it to freedom. The Covid-19 pandemic too has made it even more critical that they are not put at further risk by attending public events. ....